Welcome to Jingang Li Group in the School of Mechanical Engineering and School of Materials Engineering at Purdue University!
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We explore fundamental light-matter and opto-thermo-matter interactions and develop advanced optical tools for nanotechnology, semiconductors, energy, and health.
Research Highlights
Ultrafast near-field optical nanoscopy, Advanced Materials 2024; Nano Letters 2023; Nano Letters 2025; ACS Nano 2026
Light-driven C-H activation by 2D materials, Nature Communications 2024
Tunable strong coupling in TMDC nanowires, Advanced Materials 2022; Advanced Functional Materials 2024
Optical nanomotors on solid substrates, ACS Nano 2022
New optical tweezers based on laser cooling, Science Advances 2021
On-chip optical manipulation and assembly, Nature Communications 2019; Nano Letters 2021